CORVALLIS, Ore. — The government that once revoked his passport has put Linus Pauling on a stamp, a turn observed with irony by the scientist’s son.
Pauling, a graduate of the Oregon Agricultural College, now Oregon State, won Nobel prizes for his work in 1954 for chemistry and in 1962 for his campaign against nuclear testing, the latter provoking the government to curtail his travel.
“He suffered a lot from the heavy thumb of the government, from their attempts to suppress his opinions,” said his son, Linus Pauling Jr.
The son and the scientist’s biographer, Thomas Hager, were at the university’s Memorial Ballroom with about 300 people Thursday to celebrate the issuance of a 41-cent stamp honoring Pauling. Among them were 15 Linus Pauling Middle School students in a mediation group inspired by the scientist-activist.
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